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The WonderBox app provides content, creation opportunities, and a mini social network—with features and safeguards that will please parents.
Apps that foster creative tinkering while enabling tweens and teens to grasp a new skill, from 3-D modeling to game design.
A cheery professor guides students through "iBiome-Wetland," an app designed to teach students about biodiversity through a series of gamelike activities featuring a fresh water marsh, a salt water marsh, and a mangrove swamp.
A cheerful sailor named Fiete invites children to join him on a number of his daily activities in a series of colorful apps produced by Ahoiii Entertainment. The apps will have kids flexing their pre- reading and numeracy skills and challenging their memories.
Our reviewer Pam Schembri cites the performers' commentary as one of the strengths of this production, and calls it "a treasure for both professionals, students of music, and dabblers."
Studying parody or William Shakespeare's Hamlet in class? Looking for retelling of a classic with an unusual twist? Don't miss "Ryan North's To Be or Not to Be," now in digital.
Tiggly Words mixes touch-screen apps with real-world manipulatives to deliver a hybrid learning experience focused on long and short vowels.
Dash and Dot, by Wonder Workshop, are two robot “buddies” that arrive ready to play and program out of the box. Chad Sansing takes them for a test drive and considers their potential application in the classroom.
With no desire to thrust himself "into the vanguard of digital innovation," Iain Pears nonetheless finds himself there with publication of "Arcadia." The author notes, "...I undertook the project because I had reached the limit of my storytelling in book form and needed some new tools to get me to the next stage."
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